We are currently asking our community members to provide us feedback in regard to our collective programs, initiatives, and spaces. Although our work is primarily geared toward our students, we hope to have some staff responses to let us know how we can better support our collective work for our student community. As a member of the Mosaic and i3b community, we would really appreciate your honest feedback!

As a thank you, the first 100 participants to complete this survey will receive their choice of an i3b swag bag and  t-shirt! Your responses will not impact your chances of receiving a prize. To respect your privacy, please note that you will need to complete the Google Form at the conclusion of the Climate Survey to claim your giveaway(s). 

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Applications for the Spring '24 MLE Cohort can be found HERE. 

The Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) is a collaboration between Campus Life and Initiatives for Identity Inclusion & Belonging (i3B), that seeks to: 

Engage participants in a multicultural development and leadership learning program; 
Enhance participants' understanding of their social identities, leader identity, as well as their capacity to lead; 
And enable participants' development through authenticity, self-awareness, relationships, and capitalizing on difference. 

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I'm an alumni currently studying dental hygiene at CCBC Dundalk, in search of patients for dental cleanings. This is a great opportunity especially if you haven't had a cleaning in a while and have no dental insurance!

My availabilities are Tuesday 8AM and Thursday 1PM. These services come with a fee, starting at $20 for adults, $10 for children & seniors. 

Everyone is welcome! Please email me if interested: jdanh1027@gmail.com

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Things to note: One appointment session will be at maximum 3hrs long and will require more than one session to finish. This is due to the nature of it being conducted in an educational setting. Appointments are supervised and checked by Registered Dental Hygienists and Dentist.

So if you're available, please help a dental hygiene student out!

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Noor Zaidi, assistant professor of history, received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship to research and write Translations of Zaynab: Gender, Sectarianism, and Citizenship in Shi’a Islam. The book will analyze how the seventh-century figure, Zaynab bint Ali, granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammed, has been used in 20th-century political contexts.

“It is my great pleasure to announce NEH grant awards to support 260 exemplary humanities projects undertaken by scholars, higher education institutions, and organizations of every size,” stated NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe (Navajo) in the NEH press release. “This funding will help preserve and expand access to community histories, strengthen the ability of small museums and archives to serve the public, and provide resources and educational opportunities for students to engage with history, literature, languages, and cultures.”

Zaidi, a 2017 UMBC postdoctoral fellow, is a scholar of the Middle East and South Asia. She specializes in the history of gender, sectarianism, and Shi’a Islam in national and transnational spaces. Her research explores “sites of sectarianization” through the 20th century, tracing the development and evolution of pilgrimage to two female shrines in Syria and Pakistan and prisons in Iraq as sites of memory and identity construction. Based on oral interviews, fieldwork, and archival research in Syria, Pakistan, and Iraq, Zaidi’s work explores the physical and imaginative spaces in which identity is made and contested and shows how transnational narratives become embedded in local contexts.

You can read Zaidi’s articles about “green” Ramadan, the hajj pilgrimage, and the Shiite Muslim holiday, Ashura, in The Conversation.